F-104S ASA-M "9.99" MM6930 10°Gruppo rolling for the 9 ship display at Pratica di Mare AB "Raduno Mondiale F-104" May 30, 2004

On May 30, 2004, Pratica di Mare hosted the official celebrations for the 50th Anniversary of the first flight of the Starfighter.
More than 300,000 spectators attended the airshow of the International F-104 Meeting to which, the Aeronautica Militare, had invited all the pilots and ground crews belonging to the 15 nations
that had been equipped with the Starfighter: besides Italy, the countries that participated were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Jordan, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Spain,
Taiwan, Turkey and the United States.
It was time for the last ever flight of 9 F-104 (6 single seater and 3 two seater) that performed two fly-bys: the first in clean configuration, the second with the gear-down.
Then they split up into three separate sections and entered the visual pattern to land in close sequence.

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